Watch the Trailer for No Man Of God: "In 1980, Ted Bundy was sentenced to death by electrocution. In the years that followed, he agreed to disclose the details of his crimes, but only to one man. No Man Of God is based on the true story of the strange and complicated relationship that developed between FBI agent Bill Hagmaier and an incarcerated Ted Bundy in the years leading to Bundy's execution."
Starring:
Elijah Wood, Luke Kirby, Aleksa Palladino, Robert Patrick
Directed by:
Amber Sealey
Written by:
Kit Lesser
In Theaters, On Demand and Digital - August 27, 2021
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Stabby Saturdays on Shudder: "On July 10th and July 17th, author Grady Hendrix is celebrating slasher cinema in honor of the launch of his new novel, "The Final Girl Support Group." The two-week event, called Stabby Saturdays, sees the novelist team up with collaborator Ted Geoghegan to screen slasher double features...
Starring:
Elijah Wood, Luke Kirby, Aleksa Palladino, Robert Patrick
Directed by:
Amber Sealey
Written by:
Kit Lesser
In Theaters, On Demand and Digital - August 27, 2021
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Stabby Saturdays on Shudder: "On July 10th and July 17th, author Grady Hendrix is celebrating slasher cinema in honor of the launch of his new novel, "The Final Girl Support Group." The two-week event, called Stabby Saturdays, sees the novelist team up with collaborator Ted Geoghegan to screen slasher double features...
- 7/9/2021
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
That bad boy of (mostly) French cinema Walerian Borowczyk has been converting doubters into fans for sixty years, even though his pictures were never easy to see. Before he took a headlong leap into soft-core epics, he made some of the most creative and influential short films of his time — and they eventually became more erotic as well.
The Walerian Borowczyk Short Film Collection
Blu-ray
Olive Films
1959-1984 / B&W and Color / 1:66, 1:78 and 1:37 flat Academy / 144 min. / Street Date April 25, 2017 / available through the Olive Films website / 24.95
Directed by Walerian Borowczyk
This release brings back memories of traveling short subject shows, usually several reels’ worth of experimental films that would tour college campuses. Even in High School I’d drag my girlfriend to the University of Riverside, where huge crowds looking for the ‘In’ place to be would stare in attention at hours of abstract visuals, expressing their approval...
The Walerian Borowczyk Short Film Collection
Blu-ray
Olive Films
1959-1984 / B&W and Color / 1:66, 1:78 and 1:37 flat Academy / 144 min. / Street Date April 25, 2017 / available through the Olive Films website / 24.95
Directed by Walerian Borowczyk
This release brings back memories of traveling short subject shows, usually several reels’ worth of experimental films that would tour college campuses. Even in High School I’d drag my girlfriend to the University of Riverside, where huge crowds looking for the ‘In’ place to be would stare in attention at hours of abstract visuals, expressing their approval...
- 5/13/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) kicks off its 16th annual Doc Fortnight on Thursday, a 10-day festival that includes 20 feature-length non-fiction films and 10 documentary shorts. This year’s lineup includes four world premieres and a number of North American and U.S. premieres.
Read More: 2017 New Directors/New Films Announces Full Lineup, Including ‘Patti Cake$,’ ‘Beach Rats,’ ‘Menashe’ and More
The festival is far from the only major North American showcase for non-fiction cinema. Festivals ranging from Hot Docs to True/False have played key roles in the expanding documentary festival circuit. However, Doc Fortnight has maintained its own niche on the scene, by aiming to expose undiscovered stories and filmmakers, screening a range of documentaries from around the world and capturing the ways in which artists are pushing the boundaries of non-fiction filmmaking.
“It’s not an industry festival, there aren’t awards, and distributors aren’t all coming looking to buy,...
Read More: 2017 New Directors/New Films Announces Full Lineup, Including ‘Patti Cake$,’ ‘Beach Rats,’ ‘Menashe’ and More
The festival is far from the only major North American showcase for non-fiction cinema. Festivals ranging from Hot Docs to True/False have played key roles in the expanding documentary festival circuit. However, Doc Fortnight has maintained its own niche on the scene, by aiming to expose undiscovered stories and filmmakers, screening a range of documentaries from around the world and capturing the ways in which artists are pushing the boundaries of non-fiction filmmaking.
“It’s not an industry festival, there aren’t awards, and distributors aren’t all coming looking to buy,...
- 2/15/2017
- by Chris O'Falt and Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of film and TV critics two questions and publishes the results on Monday. (The answer to the second, “What is the best film in theaters right now?”, can be found at the end of this post.)
This week’s question: In dubious honor of “Sleepless,” a new Jamie Foxx vehicle that’s been adapted from Frederic Jardin’s “Sleepless Night,” what is the best American remake of a foreign-language film?
Joshua Rothkopf (@joshrothkopf), Time Out New York
Long before I knew and appreciated Jean Renoir, I was in love with “Down and Out in Beverly Hills,” a 1986 comedy based on “Boudu Saved from Drowning” that peppered the flow with some truly eye-opening ideas for Hollywood: class warfare, unequal police treatment, a neurotic dog with its own therapist. The movie holds up beautifully — it’s one of Nick Nolte’s quietest performances, and one...
This week’s question: In dubious honor of “Sleepless,” a new Jamie Foxx vehicle that’s been adapted from Frederic Jardin’s “Sleepless Night,” what is the best American remake of a foreign-language film?
Joshua Rothkopf (@joshrothkopf), Time Out New York
Long before I knew and appreciated Jean Renoir, I was in love with “Down and Out in Beverly Hills,” a 1986 comedy based on “Boudu Saved from Drowning” that peppered the flow with some truly eye-opening ideas for Hollywood: class warfare, unequal police treatment, a neurotic dog with its own therapist. The movie holds up beautifully — it’s one of Nick Nolte’s quietest performances, and one...
- 1/17/2017
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Today's round of news and views opens with a review of Superior Viaduct's release of the audio track of Chris Marker’s La Jetée on vinyl. Plus: Essays on Nicholas Ray, Eric Rohmer and Alfred Hitchcock, Jean-Luc Godard's Pierrot le fou, Ida Lupino, Marguerite Duras, Stanley Kubrick, Tim Holt, a book on Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub, remembering the actual Big Lebowski, David Huddleston, interviews with Pedro Almodóvar, Kent Jones, Clint Eastwood, Steven Soderbergh, a trailer for the new restoration of Ken Loach's Kes—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 8/7/2016
- Keyframe
Today's round of news and views opens with a review of Superior Viaduct's release of the audio track of Chris Marker’s La Jetée on vinyl. Plus: Essays on Nicholas Ray, Eric Rohmer and Alfred Hitchcock, Jean-Luc Godard's Pierrot le fou, Ida Lupino, Marguerite Duras, Stanley Kubrick, Tim Holt, a book on Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub, remembering the actual Big Lebowski, David Huddleston, interviews with Pedro Almodóvar, Kent Jones, Clint Eastwood, Steven Soderbergh, a trailer for the new restoration of Ken Loach's Kes—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 8/7/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
Rushes collects news, articles, images, videos and more for a weekly roundup of essential items from the world of film.NEWSVoyage of TimeWell, the Academy Awards, of course! Here's the list of winners. Who made us smile most for his win of the golden statue? Ennio Morricone and his gracious speech for his ace score to The Hateful Eight. Biggest gaff beyond the central controversy? Setsuko Hara, Manoel de Oliveira, and Jacques Rivette not included in the "In Memoriam."And yet another filmmaker has left us this year. The New York Times reports that Syrian director Nabil Maleh has died at the age of 79.With Terrence Malick's dividing film Knight of Cups about to be released in cinemas in the Us this week, images have come in (including one above) of the filmmaker's mysterious documentary we keep hearing about, Voyage of Time.In New York, the big news this...
- 3/2/2016
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Two 1980's science fiction efforts from the 'eighties: Millennium is an expensive book adaptation with Kris Kristofferson and Cheryl Ladd navigating a time travel story about body snatchers from the future. R.O.T.O.R is direct to video and strictly from hunger. Oh, the agony… However, both films surely have lessons to teach the budding filmmaker who thinks moviemaking is easy. Millennium and R.O.T.O.R. Blu-ray Color Scream Factory Street Date February 23, 2016 / 26.99
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Scream Factory plumbs the depths of the MGM library, which includes not only the holdings of United Artists, Orion and the old American-International Pictures, but also an alphabet soup of smaller outfits that were bought up in the 1990s. The independent productions seen on this Scream Factory Blu-ray double bill give us two kinds of science fiction properties. One is an expensive Canadian production with a big star, and the other is a...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Scream Factory plumbs the depths of the MGM library, which includes not only the holdings of United Artists, Orion and the old American-International Pictures, but also an alphabet soup of smaller outfits that were bought up in the 1990s. The independent productions seen on this Scream Factory Blu-ray double bill give us two kinds of science fiction properties. One is an expensive Canadian production with a big star, and the other is a...
- 2/21/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Yet another European art film director tries his hand at cerebral Sci-fi. Alain Resnais' openly experimental movie uses a generic time travel framework to, what else, explore the phenomenon of memory. Suicidal melancholic Claude Rich is projected back exactly one year, for exactly one minute. What could go wrong? Je t'aime, je t'aime Blu-ray Kino Classics 1968 / Color /1:66 widescreen / 94 min. / Street Date November 10, 2015 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95 Starring Claude Rich, Olga Georges-Picot, Anouk Ferjac. Cinematography Jean Boffety Film Editors Albert Jurgenson, Colette Leloup Original Music Krzysztof Penderecki Written by Jacques Sternberg, Alain Resnais Produced by Mag Bodard Directed by Alain Resnais
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
My very first UCLA film class in the Fall of 1970 dispatched us to the Vagabond Theater to see a double bill of two 'art' movies that play fast and loose with narrative conventions: Luis Buñuel's Ensayo de un Crimen and Alain Resnais' Je t'aime,...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
My very first UCLA film class in the Fall of 1970 dispatched us to the Vagabond Theater to see a double bill of two 'art' movies that play fast and loose with narrative conventions: Luis Buñuel's Ensayo de un Crimen and Alain Resnais' Je t'aime,...
- 11/3/2015
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
The entirety of the Summer 2015 issue of Film Quarterly is freely accessible—but only until September 30. Highlights include Jiwei Xiao on Jia Zhangke's A Touch of Sin, Megan Ratner's interview with Eugène Green and Paul Thomas's remembrance of Alain Resnais. The new Senses of Cinema features articles on Chris Marker's La Jetée and Asghar Farhadi's About Elly, reviews of four books on Alfred Hitchcock and much more. We're also rounding up highlights of new issues of Screening the Past, [in]Transition, the Brooklyn Rail and Synoptique. Plus cinematographer Vittorio Storaro on the influence of Caravaggio on Bernardo Bertolucci's The Conformist. » - David Hudson...
- 9/16/2015
- Keyframe
The entirety of the Summer 2015 issue of Film Quarterly is freely accessible—but only until September 30. Highlights include Jiwei Xiao on Jia Zhangke's A Touch of Sin, Megan Ratner's interview with Eugène Green and Paul Thomas's remembrance of Alain Resnais. The new Senses of Cinema features articles on Chris Marker's La Jetée and Asghar Farhadi's About Elly, reviews of four books on Alfred Hitchcock and much more. We're also rounding up highlights of new issues of Screening the Past, [in]Transition, the Brooklyn Rail and Synoptique. Plus cinematographer Vittorio Storaro on the influence of Caravaggio on Bernardo Bertolucci's The Conformist. » - David Hudson...
- 9/16/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
Rushes collects news, articles, images, videos and more for a weekly roundup of essential items from the world of film.Above, the trailer for Denis Villeneuve's thriller Sicario, which premiered in competition in Cannes.Cinema Scope #63 is about to hit newstands, but a lot of it can be read online: Mark Peranson on Cannes and Miguel Gomes, Adam Cook talks with Corneliu Porumboiu, Jordan Cronk on The Assassin, Chuck Stephens on Gregory Markopoulous, Christoph Huber on Mad Max: Fury Road, and more.Author William Gibson recounts his encounters with Chris Marker's La Jetée.James Horner, the composer of scores for such Hollywood films as 48 Hrs, Aliens, and Titanic, has died at the age of 61.Federic Babina has made a series of "Archidirector" illustrations, imagining houses designed in the style of filmmakers like David Lynch and Stanley Kubrick.Sight & Sound has exclusive images from the production of Ben Rivers' new movie,...
- 6/24/2015
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960 - 1971 press preview at MoMA Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
At the press preview for Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960 - 1971, the Museum of Modern Art Director, Glenn D. Lowry, introduced the co-curators, Klaus Biesenbach, Chief Curator at Large, MoMA, and Director, MoMA PS1 and Christophe Cherix, The Robert Lehman Foundation Chief Curator of Drawings and Prints.
Yoko's exhibition includes nine 16mm films - Albert Maysles and David Maysles' Cut Piece, the John Lennon and Yoko Ono Bed-In from 1969, Match Piece (One), Eyeblink, Fly, Film No. 5 (Smile), Wrapping Event, Film No. 4, and The Museum Of Modern Art Show 1971.
Albert and David Maysles' Cut Piece (1965) Carnegie Recital Hall, NYC
The infamous The Museum Of Modern Art Show 1971 consists of interviews Yoko conducted in front of MoMA in 1971 about her Yoko Ono: One Woman Show - a show that did not take...
At the press preview for Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960 - 1971, the Museum of Modern Art Director, Glenn D. Lowry, introduced the co-curators, Klaus Biesenbach, Chief Curator at Large, MoMA, and Director, MoMA PS1 and Christophe Cherix, The Robert Lehman Foundation Chief Curator of Drawings and Prints.
Yoko's exhibition includes nine 16mm films - Albert Maysles and David Maysles' Cut Piece, the John Lennon and Yoko Ono Bed-In from 1969, Match Piece (One), Eyeblink, Fly, Film No. 5 (Smile), Wrapping Event, Film No. 4, and The Museum Of Modern Art Show 1971.
Albert and David Maysles' Cut Piece (1965) Carnegie Recital Hall, NYC
The infamous The Museum Of Modern Art Show 1971 consists of interviews Yoko conducted in front of MoMA in 1971 about her Yoko Ono: One Woman Show - a show that did not take...
- 5/13/2015
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Many happy returns to Bruce Willis, who celebrates his 60th birthday today (March 19)!
Ever since finding fame in the '80s thanks to sitcom Moonlighting and explosive action movie Die Hard, Bruce has been a regular on our screens, appearing in films great, good, not-so-good and Cop Out.
With John McClane himself celebrating the big 6-0, Digital Spy staff reminisce about their favourite Bruce Willis movies, while you can vote for your personal favourite in the poll below...
Die Hard - Morgan Jeffery (TV Editor)
There's a million reasons to love 1988's Die Hard - the colourful supporting characters like Al (Reginald VelJohnson), Ellis (Hart Bochner) and Argyle (De'voreaux White), action cinema's greatest ever villain in Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman), Michael Kamen's brilliantly '80s score...
But the big reason is Bruce. Sure, New York cop John McClane was a tough guy, but what Willis brought to the part...
Ever since finding fame in the '80s thanks to sitcom Moonlighting and explosive action movie Die Hard, Bruce has been a regular on our screens, appearing in films great, good, not-so-good and Cop Out.
With John McClane himself celebrating the big 6-0, Digital Spy staff reminisce about their favourite Bruce Willis movies, while you can vote for your personal favourite in the poll below...
Die Hard - Morgan Jeffery (TV Editor)
There's a million reasons to love 1988's Die Hard - the colourful supporting characters like Al (Reginald VelJohnson), Ellis (Hart Bochner) and Argyle (De'voreaux White), action cinema's greatest ever villain in Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman), Michael Kamen's brilliantly '80s score...
But the big reason is Bruce. Sure, New York cop John McClane was a tough guy, but what Willis brought to the part...
- 3/19/2015
- Digital Spy
In today's roundup of news and views: Joan Didion, half a century ago and more relevant than ever, on Hollywood's diversity problem. Jonathan Romney on "conceptual science fiction" (Chris Marker’s La Jetée, Shane Carruth’s Primer and Upstream Color and, from this year alone, Alex Garland’s Ex Machina, Michael Spierig and Peter Spierig's Predestination and James Ward Byrkit's Coherence). Chuck Bowen ranks the films of David Cronenberg. Daniel Kasman talks with Guy Maddin and co-director Evan Johnson about The Forbidden Room, David Jenkins talks with Jessica Hausner about Amour Fou and Lourdes, and Anne Thompson has a good long talk with Laura Poitras about Citizenfour. » - David Hudson...
- 2/25/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
In today's roundup of news and views: Joan Didion, half a century ago and more relevant than ever, on Hollywood's diversity problem. Jonathan Romney on "conceptual science fiction" (Chris Marker’s La Jetée, Shane Carruth’s Primer and Upstream Color and, from this year alone, Alex Garland’s Ex Machina, Michael Spierig and Peter Spierig's Predestination and James Ward Byrkit's Coherence). Chuck Bowen ranks the films of David Cronenberg. Daniel Kasman talks with Guy Maddin and co-director Evan Johnson about The Forbidden Room, David Jenkins talks with Jessica Hausner about Amour Fou and Lourdes, and Anne Thompson has a good long talk with Laura Poitras about Citizenfour. » - David Hudson...
- 2/25/2015
- Keyframe
SyFy's efforts to get back into narrative programming just got a big boost from, 12 Monkeys, the episodic adaptation of a French short film and an American cult feature film. Like it's predecessors 12 Monkeys is about a time traveler from the future who is sent back to stop a deadly plague from bringing Humankind to the verge of extinction. What the show is able to do is expand this 12 Monkeys universe even more. Just as Gilliam expanded Chris Marker's short film La Jetée into his feature length film, Twelve Monkeys, the show, now has 12 episodes to expand as much as they want to. This time travel story has gone from 30 minutes, to 129 and on to a whopping 529 in just this first...
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- 1/16/2015
- Screen Anarchy
In the first episode of Syfy's "12 Monkeys," post-apocalyptic time traveler and long-haired tough James Cole (Aaron Stanford) returns to the wasteland of 2043 disappointed that he still exists. Accomplishing his mission "didn't change anything," he tells Jones (Barbara Sukowa), the enigmatic leader of an effort to prevent the pandemic that has pushed humankind to the brink of extinction. "There were others. There are always others." Indeed, in both narrative and form, "others" loom large over the series, which sets itself the impossible task of living up to not one but two visionary filmmakers and, like Cole, comes up frustratingly short. "12 Monkeys" is not an exact replica of Terry Gilliam's 1995 film of the same name, which drew inspiration from "La Jetée" (1963), Chris Marker's revolutionary portrait of a world annihilated by nuclear war. Rather, the series re-imagines a similar universe: Cole leaps back and forth...
- 1/13/2015
- by Matt Brennan
- Thompson on Hollywood
From low-budget dystopias to grungy horror, here are 12 shorts that became films such as Evil Dead, Twelve Monkeys and The Babadook.
The best story ideas are often the simple and pure ones. It's little wonder, then, that so many filmmakers and storytellers start by making short films - after all, if you can tell a good story in just a few minutes, you might be talented enough to make a feature.
Cinema history is full of stories about young filmmakers getting their start by making low-budget shorts. James Cameron famously made Xenogenesis, a sci-fi short which contained lots of things that would appear in his later feature films: a giant robot with big tank tracks, a cyborg, and a heroine at the helm of a hard-hitting mecha.
The short films below vary wildly, from two-minute chillers to 30-minute post-apocalyptic science fiction, but each of them are watchable for their own reasons,...
The best story ideas are often the simple and pure ones. It's little wonder, then, that so many filmmakers and storytellers start by making short films - after all, if you can tell a good story in just a few minutes, you might be talented enough to make a feature.
Cinema history is full of stories about young filmmakers getting their start by making low-budget shorts. James Cameron famously made Xenogenesis, a sci-fi short which contained lots of things that would appear in his later feature films: a giant robot with big tank tracks, a cyborg, and a heroine at the helm of a hard-hitting mecha.
The short films below vary wildly, from two-minute chillers to 30-minute post-apocalyptic science fiction, but each of them are watchable for their own reasons,...
- 12/2/2014
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
Director Chris Marker, best known to the general public for the spectacular short film La Jetée (a film that has inspired a wide range of films and filmmakers, most notably Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys), is currently at the center of a mini resurgence. His 1997 film Level Five was recently restored and has been making the Cinematheque rounds over the last year, culminating in an upcoming home video release care of the fine folks at Icarus Films.
The movie is a stand out of Marker's, easily on par with La Jetée, it's the story of a woman who, while working on a WWII video game, is also mourning the loss of her lover. It sounds innocuous enough but as is often the case with Marker's movies, there's a whole lot more going on not to mention that the [Continued ...]...
The movie is a stand out of Marker's, easily on par with La Jetée, it's the story of a woman who, while working on a WWII video game, is also mourning the loss of her lover. It sounds innocuous enough but as is often the case with Marker's movies, there's a whole lot more going on not to mention that the [Continued ...]...
- 9/9/2014
- QuietEarth.us
Back on the big screen as part of Bam Rose Cinema's retrospective of his work, Chris Marker’s 1996 documentary “Level Five” is a staunch reminder of the singular cinematic oeuvre left behind by the filmmaker. The French visual essayist (“documentary” may be an insufficient descriptor for any of his films) grew up alongside exponents of the French New Wave, but was set apart by his unique approach to cinema and storytelling. Most renowned for the 1962 short masterpiece “La Jetée” (one of the most effective time travel movies ever made), and 1983’s documentary “Sans Soleil,” third in Sight And Sound’s all-time list of documentaries, Marker was fascinated with a number of anthropological themes. His work often resulted in visual collages touching upon history, war, collective memory, and modern technology. Any readers unfamiliar with Marker’s work shouldn't necessarily start with "Level Five," but Marker admirers will find much to savor from this intellectual.
- 8/18/2014
- by Nikola Grozdanovic
- The Playlist
From today through August 28, New York's BAMcinématek is presenting a comprehensive retrospective of films by Chris Marker. The highlight is the North American premiere of Level Five (1996). We gather reviews of this "playful, ruminative and melancholy" sci-fi "adventure" (New York Times) and point to overviews of the series, featuring not only Marker's best known works, La Jetée (1962) and Sans Soleil (1983), but also early travelogues, such as Sunday in Peking (1956) and A Letter from Siberia (1958), and political essays along the lines of A Grin Without a Cat (1977) and The Last Bolshevik (1993). » - David Hudson...
- 8/15/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
From today through August 28, New York's BAMcinématek is presenting a comprehensive retrospective of films by Chris Marker. The highlight is the North American premiere of Level Five (1996). We gather reviews of this "playful, ruminative and melancholy" sci-fi "adventure" (New York Times) and point to overviews of the series, featuring not only Marker's best known works, La Jetée (1962) and Sans Soleil (1983), but also early travelogues, such as Sunday in Peking (1956) and A Letter from Siberia (1958), and political essays along the lines of A Grin Without a Cat (1977) and The Last Bolshevik (1993). » - David Hudson...
- 8/15/2014
- Keyframe
With the theatrical release of the digitally restored 1997 film Level 5, Brooklyn's own Bam Cinematek is hosting a rare retrospective of Chris Marker, one of the most singular voices in cinema history.Marker passed on in 2012. But as a writer, photographer, visual essayist and multimedia artist, Marker leaves an impressive body of work that spans more than half a century. His uncategorizable cinematic oeuvre touched upon politics, technology, cinema, artists, time and memories. He was an acute observer of the past and present, and cinema's own soothsayer.The retro includes Sunless, one of my absolute favorites; La Jetée, a seminal time-travel, sci-fi classic; Bestiary Series, his short visual haikus on animals; Statues Also Die (with Alain Resnais) and Valparaiso (with Joris Ivens), his collaborative efforts; The Six Side of...
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- 8/13/2014
- Screen Anarchy
April 29
7:30 p.m.
Light Industry
155 Freeman Street
Brooklyn, NY 11222
Hosted by: Light Industry
Although currently an assistant law professor at the University of Kentucky College of Law, Brian L. Frye will be in attendance at this retrospective of his films made between 1999 and 2002. Following the screening, he will participate in a discussion of his work with Chrissie Iles, a curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
The full lineup of films screening are listed below with thorough descriptions of each film written by the filmmaker. The majority of his work involves found footage, much of it heavily manipulated. Some films, though, consist of majorly abstracted, but fully original footage.
P.S. Brian L. Frye has the best mustached cat of all time, named The T.J. Hooper, as a companion.
The screening lineup:
The Anatomy of Melancholy, 1999, 16mm, 11 mins
Sometime in the 1960s, a chiropractor from Kansas City...
7:30 p.m.
Light Industry
155 Freeman Street
Brooklyn, NY 11222
Hosted by: Light Industry
Although currently an assistant law professor at the University of Kentucky College of Law, Brian L. Frye will be in attendance at this retrospective of his films made between 1999 and 2002. Following the screening, he will participate in a discussion of his work with Chrissie Iles, a curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
The full lineup of films screening are listed below with thorough descriptions of each film written by the filmmaker. The majority of his work involves found footage, much of it heavily manipulated. Some films, though, consist of majorly abstracted, but fully original footage.
P.S. Brian L. Frye has the best mustached cat of all time, named The T.J. Hooper, as a companion.
The screening lineup:
The Anatomy of Melancholy, 1999, 16mm, 11 mins
Sometime in the 1960s, a chiropractor from Kansas City...
- 4/26/2014
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
From experimental sci-fi to cartoon cats, Chris Marker's work was profound, prophetic and hugely influential. Ahead of a new exhibition, some of those he inspired examine his cult appeal
Chris Marker: film-maker and escape artist in pictures
Watch an extract from Marker's classic La Jetée video
Chris Marker was a phantom, an escape artist, a shapeshifter. He told friends he came from Ulan Bator, Mongolia. Born in 1921 in a pleasant Parisian suburb, Christian-François Bouche-Villeneuve racked up many pseudonyms and monikers: Sandor Krasna, Jacopo Berenzi, Fritz Markassin. Early on, as if in anticipation of the new vocabularies and identities that would proliferate in the digital era, he signed himself Chris.Marker.
He rarely gave interviews and was happy to be represented by images of a cat. But he was no hermit or recluse. His elusiveness was a tool for creation. It furnished him with freedom. Untethered by biography, unshackled by celebrity,...
Chris Marker: film-maker and escape artist in pictures
Watch an extract from Marker's classic La Jetée video
Chris Marker was a phantom, an escape artist, a shapeshifter. He told friends he came from Ulan Bator, Mongolia. Born in 1921 in a pleasant Parisian suburb, Christian-François Bouche-Villeneuve racked up many pseudonyms and monikers: Sandor Krasna, Jacopo Berenzi, Fritz Markassin. Early on, as if in anticipation of the new vocabularies and identities that would proliferate in the digital era, he signed himself Chris.Marker.
He rarely gave interviews and was happy to be represented by images of a cat. But he was no hermit or recluse. His elusiveness was a tool for creation. It furnished him with freedom. Untethered by biography, unshackled by celebrity,...
- 4/15/2014
- by Sukhdev Sandhu, William Gibson, Mark Romanek, Joanna Hogg
- The Guardian - Film News
There were a few years there when Brad Pitt's pretty face caused many of us to overlook the actor's considerable talent. Pitt's performance in Terry Gilliam's "12 Monkeys," coming hot on the heels of his wrenching turn in "Se7en," helped us forget all about his sheaths of wheat-colored hair.
The fabulous time-traveling trip is coming to SyFy, and Pitt and "12 Monkeys" co-star Bruce Willis are producers. Of course, that could mean anything, from them simply loaning their names to the credits to actually making sure that SyFy doesn't mess around with the sci-fi fave.
"12 Monkeys" will star Aaron Stanford as a character that sounds similar, if not the same as, Willis's character. As James Cole, Willis went back in time to investigate the Army of the Twelve Monkeys, a radical organization devoted to animal rights and other causes; they also have their paws on a virus that, in the future,...
The fabulous time-traveling trip is coming to SyFy, and Pitt and "12 Monkeys" co-star Bruce Willis are producers. Of course, that could mean anything, from them simply loaning their names to the credits to actually making sure that SyFy doesn't mess around with the sci-fi fave.
"12 Monkeys" will star Aaron Stanford as a character that sounds similar, if not the same as, Willis's character. As James Cole, Willis went back in time to investigate the Army of the Twelve Monkeys, a radical organization devoted to animal rights and other causes; they also have their paws on a virus that, in the future,...
- 4/8/2014
- by Jenni Miller
- Moviefone
The future is not what it used to be. Syfy has given a series order for "12 Monkeys," a new scripted drama inspire by the 1995 Terry Gilliam film of the same name. The cable network ordered a pilot, which was shot last year. Syfy is ordering 12 episodes in addition to the pilot. "12 Monkeys" will star Aaron Stanford ("X-Men: The Last Stand"), Amanda Schull ("Suits"), Noah Bean ("Damages") and Kirk Acevedo ("Fringe"), Like the film, "Monkeys" follows a prisoner (Stanford) from a plague-ravaged future who is sent back in time to the present day in order to find a cure to the disease. Or maybe he's just insane. Atlas Entertainment’s Charles Roven ("Man of Steel," The "Dark Knight" Trilogy) and Richard Suckle ("American Hustle") will executive produce. “‘12 Monkeys’ is a captivating time travel adventure and high stakes race against the clock," said Syfy's Dave Howe in a press release. "We are...
- 4/5/2014
- by Dave Lewis
- Hitfix
Twenty-seven new features will screen over the extended five-day anniversary event and there will be tributes to Robert Redford, T-Bone Burnett, the Coen Brothers and Mohammad Rasoulof - and there has already been a Us acquisition.
While observers do not expect much buyer activity at the festival, Zeitgeist announced it had made a preemptive Us buy on Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine’s The Galapagos Affair (see below).
The Sony Pictures Classics team, RADiUS-twc, IFC, Fox Searchlight’s production head Claudia Lewis and president of Paramount Film Group Adam Goodman are among those expected to attend the Colorado event, which runs from Aug 29 through the additional day of programming on Sept 2.
The main programme features are:
All Is Lost, Robert RedfordBefore The Winter Chill (France) Philippe ClaudelBethlehem (Israel) Yuval AdlerBlue Is The Warmest Color (France) Abdellatif KechicheBurning Bush (Czech Republic) Agnieszka HollandDeath Row: Blaine Milam + Robert Fratta, Werner HerzogFifi Howls From Happiness, Mitra FarahaniThe...
While observers do not expect much buyer activity at the festival, Zeitgeist announced it had made a preemptive Us buy on Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine’s The Galapagos Affair (see below).
The Sony Pictures Classics team, RADiUS-twc, IFC, Fox Searchlight’s production head Claudia Lewis and president of Paramount Film Group Adam Goodman are among those expected to attend the Colorado event, which runs from Aug 29 through the additional day of programming on Sept 2.
The main programme features are:
All Is Lost, Robert RedfordBefore The Winter Chill (France) Philippe ClaudelBethlehem (Israel) Yuval AdlerBlue Is The Warmest Color (France) Abdellatif KechicheBurning Bush (Czech Republic) Agnieszka HollandDeath Row: Blaine Milam + Robert Fratta, Werner HerzogFifi Howls From Happiness, Mitra FarahaniThe...
- 8/28/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Apart from the three sneak screening titles that will stir up the buzz in the coming days, Julie Huntsinger and Tom Luddy’s 40th edition of the Telluride Film Festival excels in bringing a concentration of solid docus from the likes of Errol Morris and Werner Herzog who this year cuts the ribbon on a theatre going by his name and introduces Death Row, a pinch of Berlin Film Fest items (Gloria, Slow Food Story, Fifi Howls from Happiness) Palme d’Or winner (this year Abdellatif Kechiche will be celebrated), upcoming Sony Pictures Classics items (Tim’s Vermeer, The Lunchbox), Venice to Telluride to Tiff titles (Bethlehem, Tracks and Under the Skin), the latest Jason Reitman film (Labor Day) and the barely known docu-home-movie whodunit (by helmers Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine) The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden which features narration from the likes of Cate Blanchett, Diane Kruger and Connie Nielsen.
- 8/28/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
A proposed drama series based on Terry Gilliam's cult favorite "12 Monkeys" has gotten a pilot order, contingent on casting, from Syfy. The hour-long project was written by Terry Matalas and Travis Fickett (of "Terra Nova"). Production is scheduled to begin in November. Like the 1995 film on which it's based, which starred Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe and Brad Pitt, the potential "12 Monkeys" series will be centered on a man from a post-apocalyptic future who time travels to the present day to attempt to find the source of the deadly virus that wipes out most of humanity. The film, which is itself inspired by Chris Marker's "La Jetée," received two Oscar nominations. Charles Roven, who produced the film, is executive producing the pilot alongside Fickett, Matalas and Richard Suckle.
- 8/26/2013
- by Alison Willmore
- Indiewire
Syfy has announced that it will be greenlighting "12 Monkeys," a drama series based on the 1995 Universal Pictures film directed by Terry Gilliam, to pilot. The 60-minute cast-contingent pilot is being produced by Universal Cable Productions and Atlas Entertainment, producer of the original Bruce Willis-Brad Pitt theatrical. Based on the Gilliam film (in turn inspired by Chris Marker's 1962 short, "La Jetée," "12 Monkeys" follows the journey of a time traveler from the post-apocalyptic future who appears in present day on a mission to locate and eradicate the source of a deadly plague that will eventually decimate the human race. Production is set to begin in November with Terry Matalas & Travis Fickett ("Terra Nova,"...
- 8/26/2013
- Comingsoon.net
The latest film from "Tokyo Sonata" director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, "Real," which had its premiere at Locarno, will be a part of the New York Film Festival main slate. Read More: Locarno Film Festival Review: Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 'Real' Wanders Through a Comatose Mind The synopsis of the film, from the Film Society of Lincoln Center: "A star manga artist (Haruka Ayase) is in a coma, the result perhaps of a suicide attempt. In an experimental medical procedure, her husband (Takeru Satô) enters her unconscious in an attempt to awaken her. But when one psyche merges with another, mirror opposites are the possible, troubling result. A haunting successor to the mother of all time travel films, Chris Marker’s La JETÉE, with a tip of the hat to Bong Joon-ho’s The Host, Real finds its mysteries in the ordinary. What does it mean to be coupled? Can love conquer death?...
- 8/23/2013
- by Bryce J. Renninger
- Indiewire
For years the essay film has been a neglected form, but now its unorthodox approach to constructing reality is winning over a younger, tech-savvy crowd
For a brief, almost unreal couple of hours last July, in amid the kittens and One Direction-mania trending on Twitter, there appeared a very surprising name – that of semi-reclusive French film-maker Chris Marker, whose innovative short feature La Jetée (1962) was remade in 1995 as Twelve Monkeys by Terry Gilliam. A few months earlier, art journal e-flux staged The Desperate Edge of Now, a retrospective of Adam Curtis's TV films, to large audiences on New York's Lower East Side. The previous summer, Handsworth Songs (1986), an experimental feature by the Black Audio Film Collective Salman Rushdie had once attacked as obscurantist and politically irrelevant, attracted a huge crowd at Tate Modern when it was screened shortly after the London riots.
Marker, Curtis, Black Audio: all have...
For a brief, almost unreal couple of hours last July, in amid the kittens and One Direction-mania trending on Twitter, there appeared a very surprising name – that of semi-reclusive French film-maker Chris Marker, whose innovative short feature La Jetée (1962) was remade in 1995 as Twelve Monkeys by Terry Gilliam. A few months earlier, art journal e-flux staged The Desperate Edge of Now, a retrospective of Adam Curtis's TV films, to large audiences on New York's Lower East Side. The previous summer, Handsworth Songs (1986), an experimental feature by the Black Audio Film Collective Salman Rushdie had once attacked as obscurantist and politically irrelevant, attracted a huge crowd at Tate Modern when it was screened shortly after the London riots.
Marker, Curtis, Black Audio: all have...
- 8/3/2013
- by Sukhdev Sandhu
- The Guardian - Film News
Move over "Sharknado 2," Syfy has something even more compelling on the horizon that isn't just a dumb social media sensation taken too far. The network is ready to make cult fans of Terry Gilliam's "12 Monkeys" either excited or angry or both, as they are now preparing to re-launch the movie as a brand new TV series. THR reports that the project has original producers Chuck Roven and Richard Suckle on board, and that they pitched it themselves to the network, who are now getting ready to run with it. As you might remember, the original (influenced by Chris Marker's "La Jetée") starred Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt and concerned a man sent back in time to find out the cause of a killer virus that wipes out 99% of mankind in the future. But he's sent too far back and winds up in a mental ward. This new adaptation...
- 7/22/2013
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Terry Gilliam's 1995 feature 12 Monkeys is heading to the small screen. The Hollywood Reporter brings word that the time travel tale is in development as a series with "Terra Nova" writers Travis Fickett and Terry Matalas attached to pen the pilot. Inspired by Chris Marker's 1962 short film "La Jetée," 12 Monkeys begins in a post-apocalyptic future wherein a convict, James Cole (played by Bruce Willis in the 1995 film), volunteers to travel back in time in the hopes of learning how it came to be that the release of a deadly virus set the world down a path to its own near-destruction. Chuck Roven and Richard Suckle, both of whom produced the original film, are attached to the series with a 90-minute pilot currently being planned. "24" helmet Jon...
- 7/22/2013
- Comingsoon.net
Still from Sonchidi
The 3rd edition of Naya Cinema Festival, to be held in Mumbai from November 22-25, will screen Amit Dutta’s Sonchidi and Nainsukh. Both films were selected for Venice Film Festival in 2011 and 2010 respectively.
Anand Gandhi’s Ship of Theseus will also be screened at the festival.
Organised by Enlighten Film Society, the festival will be held at Russian Centre, Pedder Road, Mumbai.
The registration fee for the festival is Rs 599 that includes delegate pass for the entire festival, a festival booklet and access to online festival from 12th December, 2012 to 15th January, 2013. For registration, click here.
Festival programme:
22nd November, 2012
Pickpocket
Dir.: Robert Bresson
Time: 12 pm. (B&W / France / 1959 / 75 mins)
Trial of Joan of Arc
Dir.: Robert Bresson
Time: 1:30 pm (Colour / France / 1962 / 65 mins)
The Wages of Fear
Dir.: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Time: 3:15 pm (B&W / France / 1953 / 147 mins)
12
Dir.: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Time:...
The 3rd edition of Naya Cinema Festival, to be held in Mumbai from November 22-25, will screen Amit Dutta’s Sonchidi and Nainsukh. Both films were selected for Venice Film Festival in 2011 and 2010 respectively.
Anand Gandhi’s Ship of Theseus will also be screened at the festival.
Organised by Enlighten Film Society, the festival will be held at Russian Centre, Pedder Road, Mumbai.
The registration fee for the festival is Rs 599 that includes delegate pass for the entire festival, a festival booklet and access to online festival from 12th December, 2012 to 15th January, 2013. For registration, click here.
Festival programme:
22nd November, 2012
Pickpocket
Dir.: Robert Bresson
Time: 12 pm. (B&W / France / 1959 / 75 mins)
Trial of Joan of Arc
Dir.: Robert Bresson
Time: 1:30 pm (Colour / France / 1962 / 65 mins)
The Wages of Fear
Dir.: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Time: 3:15 pm (B&W / France / 1953 / 147 mins)
12
Dir.: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Time:...
- 11/12/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Cinecity: The Brighton Film Festival | Bradford Animation Festival | Bath Film Festival | William Klein
Cinecity: The Brighton Film Festival
Before Cinecity came along 10 years ago, this most movie-friendly of cities didn't have a regular festival to call its own. The void has been decisively filled ever since, thankfully, and this year's anniversary event springs up in venues across the city, including the Pavilion and The Basement, which becomes a pop-up cinema showing music films. There's the expected roster of new international cinema, such as The Hunt, but off the beaten track are artists, films, live music, and a celebration of the late Brighton-based film-maker Jeff Keen.
Various venues, Thu to 2 Dec
Bradford Animation Festival
Animation might reach the parts live-action can't, but it doesn't always reach the audiences it could. So it's only through events like this you'll even find out what you're missing. Led by the feature-length Crulic, which uses...
Cinecity: The Brighton Film Festival
Before Cinecity came along 10 years ago, this most movie-friendly of cities didn't have a regular festival to call its own. The void has been decisively filled ever since, thankfully, and this year's anniversary event springs up in venues across the city, including the Pavilion and The Basement, which becomes a pop-up cinema showing music films. There's the expected roster of new international cinema, such as The Hunt, but off the beaten track are artists, films, live music, and a celebration of the late Brighton-based film-maker Jeff Keen.
Various venues, Thu to 2 Dec
Bradford Animation Festival
Animation might reach the parts live-action can't, but it doesn't always reach the audiences it could. So it's only through events like this you'll even find out what you're missing. Led by the feature-length Crulic, which uses...
- 11/10/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Mubi and the Venice Film Festival bring you a new collaboration. Venice International Film Critics Week, now in its 27th edition, has long been an exciting and diverse independent section at the Venice Film Festival. Mubi is proud to present a special retrospective celebrating a decade of Critics Week, running now through October 8th.
Pictured above is one of the highlights, Year of the Nail, the debut film of Alfonso Cuarón's son, Jonás Cuarón. Little White Lies describes it:
As well as artfully poignantly depicting the difficult path from adolescence to adulthood, Year of the Nail also skilfully observes the experiences and sensations of being a foreigner...and the arbitrary boundaries that separate people.
Though clearly indebted in concept to Chris Marker’s 1962 film La Jetée, Year of the Nail should by no means be consigned to its shadow. Bolstered by the brilliant sound design of Martín Hernández, this...
Pictured above is one of the highlights, Year of the Nail, the debut film of Alfonso Cuarón's son, Jonás Cuarón. Little White Lies describes it:
As well as artfully poignantly depicting the difficult path from adolescence to adulthood, Year of the Nail also skilfully observes the experiences and sensations of being a foreigner...and the arbitrary boundaries that separate people.
Though clearly indebted in concept to Chris Marker’s 1962 film La Jetée, Year of the Nail should by no means be consigned to its shadow. Bolstered by the brilliant sound design of Martín Hernández, this...
- 8/29/2012
- MUBI
With the notion of film canonization once again at issue, we thought it might be an appropriate occasion to check in on our staff’s collective opinion of the greatest films of all time. We had no idea what to expect; our contributors come from all over the world and come from vastly different backgrounds and occupations. The results were, appropriately, eclectic, ranging from acknowledged cornerstones to contemporary classics.
A few facts worth throwing in: with five films appearing, Orson Welles is the most frequently-cited director, followed by Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock and Akira Kurosawa; the newest film to merit an appearance was Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds; animated films made a dent, particularly Toy Story and Snow White; several shorts managed to find their way in, as well.
The list, along with some individual writers’ thoughts on the entries that make up the Top 10, follow including special mention of...
A few facts worth throwing in: with five films appearing, Orson Welles is the most frequently-cited director, followed by Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock and Akira Kurosawa; the newest film to merit an appearance was Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds; animated films made a dent, particularly Toy Story and Snow White; several shorts managed to find their way in, as well.
The list, along with some individual writers’ thoughts on the entries that make up the Top 10, follow including special mention of...
- 8/23/2012
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Chris Marker, 1921-2012
Chris Marker, the enigmatic but influential French filmmaker and artiste whose career spanned six decades, died in Paris on July 29, 2012, at the age of 91.
Best known to Stateside audiences for his 1962 sci-fi-fueled romantic drama short La Jetée and the free-form documentary/travelogue Sans Soleil (1983), Marker may have been primarily acknowledged on these shores as an avant filmmaker, but he was much more. He leaves behind a vast body of work that includes his contributions as a writer, photographer, videographer, multimedia artist and, most notably, a film essayist.
A vaguer cinematic categorization than “documentary,” a film essay focus more on an idea than a narrative—what appears on the screen is not a story, but rather an essay, or a survey that fills out the definition of the subject. The result reflects the mark of the essayist, but said “signature” is more of a tone or style than...
Chris Marker, the enigmatic but influential French filmmaker and artiste whose career spanned six decades, died in Paris on July 29, 2012, at the age of 91.
Best known to Stateside audiences for his 1962 sci-fi-fueled romantic drama short La Jetée and the free-form documentary/travelogue Sans Soleil (1983), Marker may have been primarily acknowledged on these shores as an avant filmmaker, but he was much more. He leaves behind a vast body of work that includes his contributions as a writer, photographer, videographer, multimedia artist and, most notably, a film essayist.
A vaguer cinematic categorization than “documentary,” a film essay focus more on an idea than a narrative—what appears on the screen is not a story, but rather an essay, or a survey that fills out the definition of the subject. The result reflects the mark of the essayist, but said “signature” is more of a tone or style than...
- 8/8/2012
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
The director of La Jetée, who has died aged 91, was famously reclusive – yet he left a generous legacy of cinematic genius
Chris Marker, who died this week at the age of 91, was a great film-maker who often made cinematic tombeaux, commemorations of other great film-makers. Andrei Tarkovsky and Alexander Medvedkin became such subjects shortly after their passing, the films a consolidation of the regret that death always brings. It is apparent in the very opening of The Last Bolshevik (1993), Marker's study of Medvedkin, when we see the Russian rebuking the person behind the camera: "You lazy bastard, why don't you write – just a few lines, like this?", holding up his hand to show the scant space between thumb and forefinger. If Medvedkin's passing a few years previously had prompted that tribute, then the death of the man behind the camera, Chris Marker, will no doubt occasion many more.
For me,...
Chris Marker, who died this week at the age of 91, was a great film-maker who often made cinematic tombeaux, commemorations of other great film-makers. Andrei Tarkovsky and Alexander Medvedkin became such subjects shortly after their passing, the films a consolidation of the regret that death always brings. It is apparent in the very opening of The Last Bolshevik (1993), Marker's study of Medvedkin, when we see the Russian rebuking the person behind the camera: "You lazy bastard, why don't you write – just a few lines, like this?", holding up his hand to show the scant space between thumb and forefinger. If Medvedkin's passing a few years previously had prompted that tribute, then the death of the man behind the camera, Chris Marker, will no doubt occasion many more.
For me,...
- 8/6/2012
- by Jeremy Millar
- The Guardian - Film News
I fondly remember the glee I had at xeroxing from library archives a good chunk of Sight & Sound’s top favorite list back in 92′ when cinephilia officially took over me and with further research I learned that any year that ends in a “2″ meant that it was time to revisit the official order. Over the past three polls (80′s, 90′s and 00′s) Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 classic progressively moved up the rankings making its way as announced today to the number one spot dislodging Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane. My prediction for 2022: Another Brit filmmaker will continue to make strides in the top ten list – Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey should move up several spots.
Based on 846 critics’ top-ten lists and a Directors’ poll of 358 entries it is Vertigo who ends a five decade reign of the iconic snow globe and the name “Rosebud”. If anythin the list inspires a long-lasting debate,...
Based on 846 critics’ top-ten lists and a Directors’ poll of 358 entries it is Vertigo who ends a five decade reign of the iconic snow globe and the name “Rosebud”. If anythin the list inspires a long-lasting debate,...
- 8/1/2012
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Every 10 years the British film magazine Sight & Sound draws up a list of the 50 Greatest Films Ever Made. It is a list that is held with very high regard in the industry as it compiles and compares lists from esteemed critics and filmmakers from around the world. Every time that the list has been compiled since 1962, Orson Welles’ perennial classic Citizen Kane has topped the poll. But now its reign as “the Greatest Film Ever Made” has been toppled by none other than Alfred Hitchcock.
The official list, drawn up by 846 academics/critics (including Roger Ebert), names Vertigo, the 1958 classic thriller from Alfred Hitchock, as the greatest film ever made with Citizen Kane in second. When the list was compiled in 2002, Vertigo missed out on the top spot by 5 votes, which marked a change in film tastes and the arrival of a new wave of film critics. In this poll,...
The official list, drawn up by 846 academics/critics (including Roger Ebert), names Vertigo, the 1958 classic thriller from Alfred Hitchock, as the greatest film ever made with Citizen Kane in second. When the list was compiled in 2002, Vertigo missed out on the top spot by 5 votes, which marked a change in film tastes and the arrival of a new wave of film critics. In this poll,...
- 8/1/2012
- by Will Chadwick
- We Got This Covered
My New Plaid Pants pic of the day, first image from the set of Steven Soderbergh's Liberace bio Behind the Candelabra with Michael Douglas and Matt Damon as lovers
Movie City News 29 Weeks To Go until Oscar! Wooo
Cinema Blend apparently they're going to reboot The Brady Bunch.
i09 pretends that 10 upcoming remakes / reboots aren't going to suck. Hey, someone has to stay positive.
Hollywood Elsewhere Dark Right(Wing) Rises... People can't stop talking about the politics of Chris Nolan's Batman trilogy.
Hollywood.com interviewed me and other pundits on The Dark Knight Rises Oscar hopes
Awards Daily breaks down the Tony nominees who made it to Oscar nominations
Pajiba would like you to think about all the brunettes in Chris Nolan films. It's always brunettes.
/Film manages to dig up a tiny bit of info about the Coen Bros Inside Llewyn Davis
Awards Daily breaks down the...
Movie City News 29 Weeks To Go until Oscar! Wooo
Cinema Blend apparently they're going to reboot The Brady Bunch.
i09 pretends that 10 upcoming remakes / reboots aren't going to suck. Hey, someone has to stay positive.
Hollywood Elsewhere Dark Right(Wing) Rises... People can't stop talking about the politics of Chris Nolan's Batman trilogy.
Hollywood.com interviewed me and other pundits on The Dark Knight Rises Oscar hopes
Awards Daily breaks down the Tony nominees who made it to Oscar nominations
Pajiba would like you to think about all the brunettes in Chris Nolan films. It's always brunettes.
/Film manages to dig up a tiny bit of info about the Coen Bros Inside Llewyn Davis
Awards Daily breaks down the...
- 8/1/2012
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Sans Soleil
Directed by Chris Marker
Written by Chris Marker
France, 1982
“I remember that January in Tokyo, or rather the images I filmed that January in Tokyo. They’ve replaced my memory. They are my memory. I wonder how people remember things who don’t film or photograph or tape. How mankind manages to remember?”
It’s rare that a thesis can be so well articulated, yet so indefinite and nebulous. It’s rare than any resulting essay can be so delirious and hypnotic. But, then again, it’s rare that anyone has the talents of Chris Marker.
His film, Sans Soleil, should not be confused as a documentary. No, it’s more of a cultural diary. It’s more a lurid stream of consciousness, a continuous flow of memories, thoughts, emotions, and perceptions.
Like his previous film, La Jetée, Mr. Marker again returns to his tried and true practice of narration-imagery dialectic,...
Directed by Chris Marker
Written by Chris Marker
France, 1982
“I remember that January in Tokyo, or rather the images I filmed that January in Tokyo. They’ve replaced my memory. They are my memory. I wonder how people remember things who don’t film or photograph or tape. How mankind manages to remember?”
It’s rare that a thesis can be so well articulated, yet so indefinite and nebulous. It’s rare than any resulting essay can be so delirious and hypnotic. But, then again, it’s rare that anyone has the talents of Chris Marker.
His film, Sans Soleil, should not be confused as a documentary. No, it’s more of a cultural diary. It’s more a lurid stream of consciousness, a continuous flow of memories, thoughts, emotions, and perceptions.
Like his previous film, La Jetée, Mr. Marker again returns to his tried and true practice of narration-imagery dialectic,...
- 8/1/2012
- by Justin Li
- SoundOnSight
One day, sometime deep in the last millennium, I had the good fortune to be on the receiving end of a phone call from the filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin telling me not to make any plans for the next day, and if I had plans, to cancel them. Why, I asked. Because, he said, we’re going to visit Chris Marker. That was all he needed to say. Chris Marker was born Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve – perhaps on the outskirts of Paris, perhaps in Ulan Bator. His nom-de-plume was, or wasn’t, a tribute to the fiber-tipped pen. He was in the resistance in WWII, fought with the Americans, and then became part of that fine left-bank left-wing intellectual ferment out of which came so many of the books, films, philosophies, wall slogans, and cafés without which our lives would have seemed dull and unbearable. He’s perhaps best known for "La Jetée,...
- 7/31/2012
- by Howard Rodman
- Thompson on Hollywood
Experimental French director acclaimed for his post-apocalyptic film La Jetée
The essay film, a form pitched between documentary and personal reflection, exploring the subjectivity of the cinematic perspective, has now become an accepted genre. Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet, Jean-Luc Godard, Errol Morris and Michael Moore are among its main recent exponents, but Chris Marker, who has died aged 91, was credited with inventing the form.
Marker's creative use of sound, images and text in his poetic, political and philosophical documentaries made him one of the most inventive of film-makers. They looked forward to what is called "the new documentary", but also looked back to the literary essay in the tradition of Michel de Montaigne. Marker's interests lay in transitional societies – "life in the process of becoming history," as he put it. How do various cultures perceive and sustain themselves and each other in the increasingly intermingled modern world?
He was born Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve,...
The essay film, a form pitched between documentary and personal reflection, exploring the subjectivity of the cinematic perspective, has now become an accepted genre. Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet, Jean-Luc Godard, Errol Morris and Michael Moore are among its main recent exponents, but Chris Marker, who has died aged 91, was credited with inventing the form.
Marker's creative use of sound, images and text in his poetic, political and philosophical documentaries made him one of the most inventive of film-makers. They looked forward to what is called "the new documentary", but also looked back to the literary essay in the tradition of Michel de Montaigne. Marker's interests lay in transitional societies – "life in the process of becoming history," as he put it. How do various cultures perceive and sustain themselves and each other in the increasingly intermingled modern world?
He was born Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve,...
- 7/30/2012
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
Why Watch? Unfortunately, the visionary filmmaker Chris Marker died today, leaving behind a legacy most notably marked by his playful and often haunting explorations of persistence through time, personality and human identity. Most famous for La Jetée, which was the inspiration for 12 Monkeys years later, it’s clear that his films had a profound impact on the world. This short film from Nacho Vigalondo is most likely part of that Marker tradition. In it, a man recounts a woman’s strange alterations in relation to where she is – a problem that grows more and more out of control, leading to a powerful reflective lesson. It’s a beautiful movie that makes great use of simple techniques that create a powerful (and lonely) effect. Hat tip to @bonnequin for sending it out into the world and for her keen observation. What will it cost you? Only 4 joyous minutes of your life. Skip...
- 7/30/2012
- by Cole Abaius
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
The controversial Left Bank Cinema director scored an arthouse hit with Sans Soleil and made the brilliant, haunting, highly influential La Jetée
• Chris Marker obituary
Chris Marker, the enigmatic master of left-field French cinema, has died at the age of 91. The artist and film-maker was best known for his award-winning documentary Sans Soleil and for his haunting drama La Jetée, charting the quest for memory in the aftermath of a nuclear apocalypse.
Born Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve, Marker fought for the French Resistance and then cut his teeth as a journalist and a critic for Cahiers du Cinéma. He made his film debut with Olympia 52, a documentary on the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, and went on to become a leading light of the Left Bank Cinema movement alongside his friends Agnès Varda and Alain Resnais. In 1961 he sparked controversy with the documentary Si Cuba, a film that praised Fidel Castro, denounced America...
• Chris Marker obituary
Chris Marker, the enigmatic master of left-field French cinema, has died at the age of 91. The artist and film-maker was best known for his award-winning documentary Sans Soleil and for his haunting drama La Jetée, charting the quest for memory in the aftermath of a nuclear apocalypse.
Born Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve, Marker fought for the French Resistance and then cut his teeth as a journalist and a critic for Cahiers du Cinéma. He made his film debut with Olympia 52, a documentary on the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, and went on to become a leading light of the Left Bank Cinema movement alongside his friends Agnès Varda and Alain Resnais. In 1961 he sparked controversy with the documentary Si Cuba, a film that praised Fidel Castro, denounced America...
- 7/30/2012
- by Xan Brooks
- The Guardian - Film News
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